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Senin, 07 Juni 2021

PROTECTION THE HEALTH WORKER’S RIGHT TO REFUSE VACCINE AT THE COVID-19 VACCINATION PROGRAM KEBUMEN REGENCY

 Triyo Rachmadi

Abstract

The government’s policy by implementing the COVID-19 vaccination program nationally aims to reduce the risk of transmissioan of the Corona Virus as the cause of the COVID-19 disease. Health workers, still do not believe that this vaccination can effectively provide immunity. Every citizen have the right to refuse to be vaccinated against COVID-19 by the government, including health workers. The research question (1) how to protect the rights of heath workers to refuse vaccination in the COVID-19 vaccination program in Kebumen regency?(2) How does legal theory address the problem of the right to refuse the COVID-19 vaccine?This research uses sociological or empirical non-doctrinal methods with a qualitative descriptive approach, the research location in Kebumen Regency with the respondent as the informant is from the bureaucracy, two man  health worker and one man head of the health professional organization. The theory used in this research is the theory of ethics and human rights, law, order and society theory and theory of Hegemony and Domination. The research result, information was obtained that the right to refuse health workers to give the COVID-19 vaccine is still not guaranteed and protected by the government. Health worker who refuse to administer this vaccine are give sanction. The recommendations resulting from this research are the two parties, namely the government and health workers, have the same good interests, so a communication and consensus is needed in the public sphere in the form of a Communicative Rational Act which is mutually beneficial and not detrimental to both parties.

 

Keywords: health workers, refuse, rights, vaccine.

A.                Introduction

The COVID-19 pandemic that has hit Indonesia since March 2020 had a very significant impact on all aspect of people’s lives, namely economy, health, social and culture. Several effort, strategies and policies have been made by the government to prevent and reduce transmission by reducing the morbidity and mortality rates of people infected by the COVID-19 disease. Strategic effort and policies undertaken by the government include large and micro-scale social restrictions, socialization of the application of protocols. Health from 3M, namely washing hands, wearing masks and maintaining distance until it is increased to 5M’ by adding reduced mobility and avoiding crowds. Another government policy is to impose punitive sanctions on people who violate health protocols with social sanction such as cleaning the streets, singing and others. In some regions, social sanctions are added with fines. In addition, there are government policies such as the new normal or the adoption of new habits by implementing health protocols in all public facilities and establishing a COVID-19 Task Force at the central and regional levels consisting of all element of society. Of the several effort, the government’s strategies and policies have not affected the morbidity and mortality rates for people suffering from COVID-19. Many hospitals and community health centers in the regions cannot accommodate patients suffering from COVID-19 so they to add health service facilities by building a COVID-19 emergency hospital.

From March 17, 2020 to April 2, 2021, the worldwide distribution of COVID-19 was 128,540,982 people confirmed and 2,808,308 people dies from 223 countries.[1] Mean while, the number of distribution in Indonesia was 1,523,179 people who were positive, 1,361,017 people were declared cured and 41,151 people died because of the COVID-19 disease. In Indonesia, the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases is 1,517,854 or an increase of 5,142 cases. 121.222 cases were active cases with a decrease of 1,302 active cases (8.7%) with 1,355,578 recovered cases or increased to 7,248 recoverd cases (88.5%), 41,054 died with an additional 196 cases died or 2.7%. Of the 72,794 specimens examined in the laboratory, 62,623 were suspected cases of COVID-19.[2]

Central of Java Province, is ranked third out of 34 Provinces in Indonesia with 164,071 cases (11.3%).[3] Based on these data, the number of COVID-19 disease transmission still exist.[4] The alternative strategy currently taken by the taken by the government is to implement mass COVID-19 vaccination with a target of 1.3 million health workers and 17.4 million are essential public service officer such as soldiers of the Indonesian National Army (TNI), members of the Indonesian National Police, Civil Service Police Unit, transportation public servant, religious and community leaders[5]. The government’s policy by implementing the COVID-19 vaccination program nationally aims to reduce the risk of transmission of the Corona Virus as the cause of the COVID-19 disease in addition to health protocols. With the vaccination, it is hoped that everyone will have immunity against the COVID-19 disease. Some people, especially health workers, still do not believe this vaccination can effectifely provide immunity due to the inadequate information provided by the government regarding the contents, side effects of this vaccine production process and the lack of acces to information provided to the public.[6]

There are seven type of COVID-19 vaccines that will be used in Indonesia[7], namely Sinovac, Moderna, Biofarma, Sinopharm, Pfizer, Novavax and Astrazeneca. The six vaccines from the importing process of their original producing country to Indonesia for inspection at the Food and Drug Supervisory Agency (BPOM) have a very short time so that the BPOM issues Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) as a requirement for vaccines to be given directly to the public. In addition, vaccines used such as the Sinovax vaccine in phase III clinical trial had an efficacy of only 65.3% compared to Turkey which had an efficacy of 91.25% . Health workers as the first group to receive the COVID-19 vaccine do not have much time to consider the type of vaccine to be given. The government’s target is to give vaccination to groups of health workers only until February 2021. There is no reason or not allowing groups of health workers to refuse vaccinations fom the government to cause legal problems because they are deemed to violate article 93- Law Number 6 of 2018 concerning to Health Quarantine that every anyone who obstructs the implementation of health quarantine causing a public health emergency will be sentenced to imprisonment for a maximum of one year and or a maximum fine of Rp. 100,000,000,- (one hundred million rupiahs).

Health worker rights, the concern of health worker groups in the public and private sectors to exercise their rignt to delay or refuse vaccination in the COVID-19 vaccination program is in danger of being useless. The rights of health workers as well as the rights of citizen in general require protection and must be respected by all parties, especially the government. Citizens can choose not to exercise their rights under certain circumstances. The rights to refuse to receive the COVID-19 vaccine is the same as the right to obtain proper health services as stated in Republic of Indonesia Law Number 36 year 2009 concerning to Health article 5 paragraph (3) which reads: “Everyone have the right to independently and responsibly determine the health services that are needed for ownself.”

In addition, the Constitution Republic of Indonesia article 28 (A) read: “Everyone has the right to live and has the right to defend his life and life.”

In maintaining their lives and livelihoods, people have the right to freely decide for themselves how to defend their lives and livelihoods either by using the right to receive or reject the COVID-19 vaccination.

Data on health workers who were targeted for COVID-19 vaccination on Kebumen Regency were 6,973 people, with 6,962 people on the first dose of vaccination and 6,124 people on the second dose.[8] This difference in number is due to the presence of health workers who are known to have a comorbid medical history as an indication that they are not allowed to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, while the rest are known to be absent or do not come to the vaccination site at the designated health service facility. As a consideration for research locations in Kebumen Regency is the number of health workers who are spread evenly throughout the Kebumen Regency. The issue of health workers refusing to provide COVID-19 vaccination was only in Kebumen Regency, while other areas did not experience vaccination refusals by health workers. In addition, from the socio-cultural side, the people in Kebumen Regency are unique and different from other regions, namely the people who like to groups and are easily invited to think critically and rationally. Health workers who refuse to give COVID-19 vaccination in Kebumen Regency feel uneasy and worried about the sanctions that will be given by the government such as administrative sanctions, namely the revocation or closure of the medical worker's practice license and operational permit for the practice. If this sanction is implemented, the source of income for health workers will be threatened and health services to the community will stop.

The purpose of this research is to determine the rights that must be protected from health workers in the National COVID-19 Vaccination Program. One of these rights is the the right to refuse to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. This is because most health workers are very familiar with the prosedures and production stages of  vaccine production from the clinical trial phase to the side effect caused by vaccine administration. In addition, health workers know the effectiveness of the vaccine in an effort to prevent the transmission of the COVID-19 disease. This study provides a limit only to the group of health workers because the group of health workers is the main group that become the priority target for the implementation of vaccination. Groups of health workers are at the forefront of handling The COVID-19 disease in health care facilities and have experienced the impact of The COVID-19 disease themselves through complaints submitted by patients and the public.

This research requires continuation in subsequent studies because this research is only limited to research on the right to reject the target group of health workers while there are still other targets for the COVID-19 vaccination program, namely essential public service officer such as soldiers of the Indonesian National Army (TNI), members of the Indonesian National Police, Civil Service Police Unit, Public Transportation Service Officers, religious and community leader. The next research is expected to describe all the rights that must be protected from all vaccination target groups in the community. In the previous research by Victoria H. Situmorang which contains violations comitted against citizen who have religious freedom by trating them in a discriminatory or discriminatory manner. In this case the freedom to choose a religion and practice worship in accordance with one’s religion is included in human rights. This rights to freedom is also the same as the right of freedom for a citizen to choose to accept or reject the provision of the COVID-19 vaccine without being discriminated against, threats or pressure from anyone, including the government.[9]

 Then in another Human Rights Journal written by Penny Naluria Utami ‘Fulfillment of Health Services for Female Prisoners in The Narcotics Penitentiary in Langkat’ (2020)  <https;//ejournal.balitbangham.go.id> accessed 30 March 2021[10] which conatain conditions of health services that do not meet the standart that must be provided to Female. Meanwhile prisoners need proper health services and need time to consider accepting or refusing health services provided by prisons. Prisoner’s right to refuse as citizens cannot be exercised, so they are forced accept existing health service.

B.                 Problem Formulation

Based on this background, the following problems can be formulated:

1.                  How to protect the right of health workers to refuse vaccines in the COVID-19 Vaccination Program in Kebumen Regency?

2.                  How does the legal theory answer the problem of the right to refuse to give the COVID-19 vaccine?

C.                Methodology

This research uses sociological or empirical non-doctrinal methods with a qualitative descriptive approach, namely an approach that views law as a social phenomenon that is independent of its association with law as a normative rule. Qualitative methode are methods that focus on the general principles that underlie the manifestation of symptom units that exist in human life or analyze pattern of sociocultural symptom by using the culture of the community concerned to obtain an overview of the prevailing patterns.[11] This approach is used to find out the  process of protecting the rights of health workers in refusing to give the COVID-19 vaccine to The National COVID-19 Vaccination Program because it can reveal the problems that lie behind this protection process.

The data sources obtained were primary data sources and secondary data sources. Respondents selected as informants were from the bureaucracy, namely The Head of Health Office at Kebumen Regency and from The Chairman of Health professional Organization is The Indonesian National Nurses Association of Kebumen Regency was chosen, 1 (one) member of a professional organization who refused to be vaccinated, 1 (one) member of the organization health professionals who have been vaccinated and 1 (one) member of the organization health professionals who have been refused vaccination. The research location is in Kebumen Regency because the researcher lives and is domiciled in Kebumen Regency so that they know more about the cultural, social and religious conditions.

D.                Discussion and Results

Based on data from the official website of the COVID-19 Task Force of the Kebumen Regency Government, namely covid19.kebumenkab.go.id, it is stated that the target group of health workers who underwent vaccinatiom from January to February 2021 totaled 6,973 people who came from several professional health workers comes from public and private health service facilities. In the first stage of vaccination, the target of vaccinated health workers was 6,962 people and the second stage of vaccination was 6,124 people. From the results of the calculation, there is a difference between the number of targets and the actual number of targeted health workers being vaccinated, namely 11 (eleven) people in the second stage and 849 people in the second stage or there are 838 people who have not been vaccinated. This is due to several factors, namely the presence of vaccination contraindications in comorbid conditions from the target such as having a history of heart disease, hypertension, cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes mellitus, immunological disease, having been positive for COVID-19, other chronic disease, pregnant women, mothers breastfeeding and over 60 years of age. In addition, there is another factor, namely existence of refusal by not being present at the vaccination injection site.

Based on the results of interviews with respondent as informants, namely the Head of Health Office Kebumen Regency, stated that The COVID-19 vaccination in the health worker group is mandatory and is not allowed to refuse because it is a national government program that must be supported by all parties. If there are health workers who refuse to give  vaccines, they will be given good education so that they understand the purpose of the vaccination program by visiting their place of residence or professional practice place. For refusal, a vaccine refusal form will be given to be signed. For criminal sanctions for fines and imprisonment as in Republic of Indonesia Law Number 6 year 2018 concerning to Health Quarantine, it is not the authority of the Health Office Kebumen Regency. The Health Office of Kebumen Regency has a data system for health personnel in Kebumen Regency so that it can find out which health workers have not been vaccinated and who have. Based on information from the Chairperson of the Indonesia National Nurses Association (PPNI) Kebumen Regency as a part of The Health Professional Organization in Kebumen Regency, it was stated that all members of the health profession, especially PPNI in Kebumen Regency have one command to make this vaccination program a success and no one refuses to be the COVID-19 vaccine. Meanwhile, based on information from health workers who refuse to be given the COVID-19 vaccine, it is that he deliberately did not participate or register as a target for health workers to be vaccinated because he had not received correct information about the contents of the COVID-19 vaccine, the production process and the side effect caused from administering this vaccination at a later date. The central and local governments have not provided complete information about vaccination. The target group of health workers was only given information on invitations to attend health service facilities for vaccination through social media and online. Health workers who refuse to administer vaccines also know the consequences that must be received if they are carried out, such as education, pressure to continue to be given vaccines to the threat of fines and imprisonment. Based on information provided by health workers who has been vaccinated, it is stated that the right to refuse vaccination can be used by signing the refusal form given at the third table during the implementation of the vaccination program in health service facilities. Health care facilities at the vaccination centers provide a special form of refusal. For health workers who refuse vaccination and are not present or visit the health service facility where the vaccination will be visited at their home or in their practice to be given education and asked for information on the reason for the refusal.

The right to refuse a profision or health service from the government is included in human rights, namely the right to freedom and the right to self determination. Human rights in Indonesia are listed in the Constitusion Republic of Indonesia year 1945 with amendments to it, namely in article 27 paragraph (1), article 28, article 29 paragraph 92), article 30 paragraph (1) and article 31 paragraph (1). In Republic of Indonesia Law Number 36 year 2009 concerning to Health article 5 paragraph (3) which read: “Every person have the right to independently and responsibly determine the health service that are needed for himself.”

In this case, every one have the right to choose health service for himself and their family, including the right to refuse to get health service. In addition to the same Law, namely Republic of Indonesia Law Number 36 year 2009 concerning to Health in the second paragraph article 56, paragraph (1) which reads: “Every person have the right to accept or reject part or all of the relief measure that will be given to their after receiving and understanding the complete information regarding the action.”

Based on Republic of Indonesia Law Number 36 year 2009 concerning Health, the refusal of the provision of The COVID-19 vaccine has been constitutionally guaranteed so that the rights of health workers who refuse to provide the COVID-19 vaccine must be protected by th government. The right to refuse is the same as human rights which in its use by health workers must be respected and protected by the government. All parties, including the government are not allowed to use the force of threats, pressure, intervention and intimidation against health workers who refuse to administer the COVID-19 vaccine. Moreover, health workers who work for government institutions are threatened with dishonorable dismissal and dismissal because they are deemed not to have integrity and loyalty to the state. In the event, imposing sanctions on health workers at government institutions for reason of refusing to give vaccinations is contrary to the Constitution of The Republic of Indonesia article 27 paragraph (2) which reads: “Every citizen have the right to work and a living that is decent for humanity.”

Human rights are legal and normative consepts which state that humans have rights that are binding on themselves. Human rights apply at any time, in every place and to all people so that they are universal and cannot be divided, interconnected and interdependent. In principle, human rights cannot be revoked (inalienable) which means that no matter how bad the traetment has beeb experienced by a person or in any condition the treatment of a person. They  will not stop being a human because they still have these rights. The state or government is obliged to respect, protect and fulfill human rights. Conseptually, human rights are based on the belief that these rights are bestowed naturally by God Almighty.[12]

Human rights depart from the concept of moral universalism and the belief in the existence of universal moral codes that are inherent in mankind. Moral universalism locates the existence of moral truths that are cross cultural and cross historical which are identified rationally. In universalism, the individual is a social unit that has undeniable rights and is directed at the fulfillment of personal interests. In the model of cultural relativism, acommunity is a social unit. It is unknown to concepts such as individualism, freedom of choice and equality. What is aknowledged is that interests of the community are the top priority. All cultures have the same right to live and dignity which must be respected. Several principles have inspired international human rights that are found in almost all international treaties and are applied to broader rights. These principles are the principle of equality, prohibition of discrimination and positive obligations imposed on every country to be used to protect certain rights. Human rights in rejecting the provision of COVID-19 vaccination included in the right to personal freedom, thought and conscience are regulated in Article 4 Paragraph (2) Law Number 39 Year 1999 concerning to Human Rights which read: “The Right to life, the right not to be tortured, the right to personal freedom, thought and conscience, the right to religion, the right not to be enslaved, the right to be recognized as a person and equality before the law and the right not to be prosecuted on the basis of retroactive law are human rights human beings who cannot be reduced under any circumstances and by anyone”. In addition, the right to refuse COVID-19 vaccination is also regulated the sixth part at the right to feel save article 30 Law Number 39 Year 1999 concerning to Human Rights which read: “Everyone have the right to a sense of security and security  and protection against the threat of fear to do or not do something”. Based on these provisions, the right to refuse to be vaccinate by the health worker is accompanied by the right to feel safe and the rights to be protected by all parties from threats, pressure, intimidation or sanction due to the act of freedom to choose to refuse vaccination.

In this condition, health workers who refuse to give COVID-19 vaccination can be included in the second generation of human rights, which are the right to decent work and the right to health. The rights of health workers if they refuse to give the COVID-19 vaccine with the consequence of giving administrative sanctions in the form of revocation of health practice permits and operational permits have an impact on the loss of the health worker's job, which means that the right to decent work of health workers has been violated by the government. Likewise, the right to health of health workers who refuse to give the COVID-19 vaccine also has the same right to health as other citizens. The right to health that should be obtained as a result of refusing to give the COVID-19 vaccine is not tolerated or discriminated against. This second generation of human rights is basically a demand for social equality or what is called positive rights, namely that the fulfillment of these rights really requires an active role of the state. State involvement shows a plus sign (positive).[13] To fulfill the right to health, such as the provision of COVID-19 vaccination, the state or government must make health policies that can protect all people, especially health workers who either accept or refuse COVID-19 vaccination.

The third generation of human rights or brotherhood is represented by demands for solidarity or collective rights.[14] In the conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic as a joint effort to prevent the transmission and spread of the COVID-19 disease in the community, health workers have the right to work together to provide health services to the community. Health workers who refuse to give the COVID-19 vaccine also have the same right to work together with other health workers to provide health services without having to be given sanctions in the form of revocation of the health profession's practice license or prohibition of working to serve public health. Based on interviews with health workers who refused the COVID-19 vaccine, they have the hope of being able to work together again with their colleagues in dealing with the COVID-19 disease.[15]

According the Book entitled Hegel’s Ethical Thought by Allen W. Wood,[16], there are three philosophical principles of human rights, namely rights, morality and ethics of life. The ethics of live relates to human in their concrateness. Human rights and morality are abstract moments. This description is a thruth that is appreciated when actualized in social institution including in ethical life. These two principles are important because their unique character represent a deeper human self-awareness than was previously available for any pre modern culture. People and their subject are abstractions, incomplete or one sided images of the human individual that can be overcome only when the individual is concerned with ethical life (Sittichkeit). Hegel identifies ethical life with an objective ethical order, an ethical substance for certain individuals called accident.

It affirms the social primacy of the individual. Freedom of subjectivity is a distinctive principle of modern ethical life. Ethical life is more concrete than abstract rights and morality, not because it emphasizes the individual but the ethical image of the individual is more concrete. This places the individual side in the order of social life. The state as the highest actualization of individual freedom.

Individuals are citizens of the state.[17] Individuals are also members of the state, part of the whole family. This means that, unlike civil society, there is differentiation or separation of individuals who are the determinants of their fundamental relationship with each other. Membership in this part of the country is fundamentally different from membership in the family. Family is also ethics as an unconscious goal but in the state the last truth is spirit, namely the universal goal of the state and object consciousness. In the family, the social whole is not a conscious goal, the individual’s commitment to an institution is a feeling of love for others. Citizen serve the state as an institution with an explicit political constitution. Citizen participation is not from direct feelings but from rational thought. The state is the ultimate goal, unification is the content and purpose of the state. The end of the country is the happines of the citizen.[18]

The individual is a product of the social which determines order. This structura reaches its highest point in the political state because the structure of social life is consciously known and desired for its rationality. The state refers to the existence of an entire organized society including family life and civil society. In a narrow sense, the state is a set of political institutions. Political conditions that shape social life become object of human rational choice. The state as the only social institution that can claim true independence. Modern family life economically dependent on the life of civil society. The familiy and civil society depend on the political state and are subordinate to it. The sovereign state does not depend on anything. The state has the highest institutional reality of human power on earth. The existence of large and fundamental social changes is always followed by adjustments in the aspect of their legal life.[19]

According to Robert B. Siedman and William J. Chambliss in their theory of law, order and society, it is stated that the process of the operation of law is determined by four main components, namely law-making institutions or laws, law enforcement bureaucracy, role holders and the influence of personal and social forces. The first three components, namely law-making institutions, law enforcement bureaucracy and those playing roles play a role in the corridor of the law, while personal and social forces are non-legal components. The first component, every rule of law prescribe how  a role occupant  is expected to act. The second, how a role occupant will act in respons to norm of law is function of the rules laid down, their sanctions, the activity of enforcement institutions and the inhere complex of social, political and other forces affecting him. The third, how the enforcement institution will act in respons to norm of law is afunction of the rule laid down their sanctions, the inhere complex of social, political and other process affecting them and the feedbackfrom role occupant. The fourth, how the law maker will act is afunctions of the rules laid down for their behaviour their sanctions, the inhere complex of social, political, ideological and other forces affecting them and the feedback from rule occupant and bureaucracy. The four propositions describe the operation of rules and laws in society.[20]

The regulations issued produce the desire results but their effesct depends on the surrounding social forces. People do not see legal product as merely an act of issuing regulations formally but rather than that. The role expected by society is determined and limited by these social forces, especially the cultural system. What is meant by role holders are all citizens, both the community and law enforcers. In this case, regulations, legislation, strategies and policies as legal product of the government are influenced by other social factors and forces. The legal product referred to in this case is The Constitution Republic of Indonesia year 1945 article 27 paragraph (2) and article 28 (A), Republic of Indonesia Law Number 36 year 2009 concerning to Health article 5 paragraph (3) and article 56, paragraph (1), article 4 and 30 Law Number 39 year 1999 concerning to Human Rights and Regulation of The Minister of Health of the Republic of Indonesia Number 10 year 2021 about the Implementation of Vaccinations in Context of the Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic. The factors that influence the legal product are the understanding of the community related to social, cultural and product are the understanding of the community related to social, cultural and religious aspects as well as acces to information provided by the government and technical instructions for derivatives of these legal products.

The regulation released contain expectation that sholud be implemented by legal subject as role holder. The working of these expectations is determined by several factors. The factors that determine the response given by stkeholders include the law itself, the sanctions contained there in:activities of law enforcement agencies and all social, political and other forces. These changes were caused by reactions generated by stakeholders against legislators and the bureaucracy. On the other hand, the bureaucratic component also provides feedback to legislators and the stakeholders. In the practice of law enforcement, sometimes there is a conflict between legal certainly and justice. This is because the concept of justice is abstract whereas legal certainly is a normative procedure. In essence, a lawenforcement policy includes law enforcement and peace maintenance because law enforcement is a process of harmonizing the norm values and real behaviour pattern that aim to achieve peace. Legal certainty and justice in the COVID-19 National Vaccination Program aims to provide protection to all Indonesian citizens as stated in the Preamble to the Constitution Republic of Indonesia year 1945 that the state’s goal is to protect all Indonesia’s blood. In justice, this requires consideration of the freedom of citizens, namely using the rights of citizens to decide for themselves to refuse gifts from the government or the state, namely refusing to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.

Law has elements, namely statutory law, treaty law, juridical law, customary law and doctrinal law.[21] Ideally, these legal elements should not conflict with each other, either vertically or horizontally between one statutory and another. There is synchronization between other laws and the constitution above it. In relation to the rights of health workers to refuse COVID-19 vaccination, it has been regulated in the Constitution Republic of Indonesia year 1945 article 27 paragraph (2) and article 28 (A), Law Number 36 year 2009 concerning to Health article 5, paragraph (3) and article 56, paragraph (1) and Law Number 39 Year 1999 concerning to Human Rights article 4 and at the right to feel save article 30. In this case, the right to refuse the provision of the COVID-19 vaccine has received constitutional protection from the state but is contrary to article 93 Law Number 6 year 2018 concerning to Health Quarantine and Presidential Regulation of the Republic of Indonesia Number 14 year 2021 of Amandments to Presidential Regulation Number 99 year 2020 of the Procurement of Vaccines and Implementation of Vaccinations in the Context of  Overcoming the Pandemic Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) article 13A paragraph 4 and 5. These legal elements are not ideal because there are still conflict between one statutory with others. The language used in the law must also be clear, simple and precise because the content is a message to the people affected by the law. The language used does not contain multiple interpretations as in the two laws and regulations, namely Law Number 36 year 2009 concerning to Health, article 56, paragraph (1) and article 93 Law Number 6 year 2018 concerning to Health Quarantine.

On the legal factor, in this case is the Constitution Republic of Indonesia year 1945 article 27 paragraph (2) and article 28 (A), Republic of Indonesia Law Number 36 year 2009 concerning to Health article 5 paragraph (3) and article 56, paragraph (1), article 4 and 30 Law Number 39 year 1999 concerning to Human Rights. Meanwhile, the implementation of COVID-19 vaccination uses Regulation of the Minister of Health of the Republic of Indonesia Number 10 year 2021 about Implementation of Vaccination in the Context of Combating Corona Virus 2019 Disease Pandemic (COVID-19). Based on the results of interviews with respondent as informants, namely the Head of Health Office Kebumen Regency, the Kebumen District Health Office carries out tasks in accordance with regulations and laws by providing sanctions and warnings to health workers who refuse to provide COVID-19 vaccination. Based on information from the Chairperson of the Indonesia National Nurses Association (PPNI) Kebumen Regency, health professional organizations will always support government programs so that no health worker refuses to be vaccinated. Based on information from health workers who refuse to be given the COVID-19 vaccine, health workers who refuse to administer vaccines also know the consequences that must be received if they are carried out, such as education, pressure to continue to be given vaccines to the threat of fines and imprisonment.[22] Based on the interview, the role holders have not fully carried out the orders from the law, both from the Kebumen District Health Office, law enforcers and the government that have not guaranteed the rights of health workers.

In the role occupant factor, the parties who form and implement the law in the implementation of COVID-19 vaccination are local government officials and health workers in health service facilities assisted by The Indonesian national Army (TNI), The Indonesian National Police and The COVID-19 Task Force at the central and regional levels. Health workers who refuse to give the COVID-19 vaccine are only given education by fellow health workers, sign the refusal form and report it to their superiors or leadership of the health worker. Based on the results of interviews with respondent as informants, namely the Head of Health Office Kebumen Regency and the Chairperson of PPNI,  the authority to impose sanctions and punishments is the law enforcement apparatus, the health office of Kebumen district only gives warnings and education. [23]

The duties, mains and functions of each law enforcing apparatus in supervising and providing sanctions for health workers who refuse to administer vaccinations are inadequate due to the unclear laws and regulations being used. Based interview with the Head of Health Office Kebumen Regency and the Chairperson of the Indonesia National Nurses Association (PPNI) Kebumen Regency, The head of health service facility or the direct supervisor of the health worker is not authorized to impose criminal sanctions or fines but exert pressure by imposing administrative sanctions only.[24] Even those administrtaive sanctions are contrary to human rights, the Constitution Republic of Indonesia year 1945 and Republic of Indonesia Law Number 36 year 2009 concerning Health.

In the supporting facility or facility factor, this factor includes software and hardware. An example of software is health. Hardware is a physical facility that functions as a suppoting factor in law enforcement.[25] Examples of hardware are the COVID-19 vaccine, medical device, health service facilities that support effort to work the law. Supporting facilities such as a system for recording and reporting targets for COVID_19 vaccination and a health human resource information system. Regulation of The Minister of Health of the Republic of Indonesia Number 10 year 2021 concerning to Implementation of Vaccination in the Context of The Corona Virus 2019 (COVID-19) Disease Pandemic is a software. Based interview with the Head of Health Office Kebumen Regency, the implementation of the COVID-19 vaccination was carried out in 35 public health centers and two government-owned hospitals. The Kebumen District government has provided a number of COVID-19 vaccines, namely Sinovax doses 1 and 2 for a number of targeted health workers in Kebumen Regency with logistics distribution to the vaccination site escorted by elements of the Indonesian Republic Police and the Indonesian National Army.[26]

In the societal factor, law enforcement comes from society which aims to achieve peace in society. The public have legal awareness. The community problem regarding law is the degree of legal compliance, namely high, moderate or insuffiicient legal compliance. This is an indicator of the functioning of the law. The attitude of the public, especially those of health workers who do not get good information from the government and are not given the opportunity to acces information about the COVID-19 vaccine is one of the factor inhibitting the operation of the law. In the rights of health workers who refuse to given the COVID-19 vaccine, they should receive protection and be given the freedom to choose according to their own decisions. Based on information from health workers as part of the community, groups of health workers do not get good information from the government about the COVID-19 vaccine, concerns about side effects and the impact it causes. Concerns also arise in the imposition of sanctions for revocation of practice permits and operating permits for practice places if health workers refuse to administer the COVID-19 vaccine.[27]

In cultural factors, culture has a very large function for human and society, namely regulating humans in acting, acting and determining their attitudes when dealing with other people.[28] Culture is the main line of behaviour that establishes rules regarding what should be done and what is prohibited. Cultural factors in society are also an obstacle to the operation of this law. Javanese culture in Kebumen Regency is very dominant. In determining and choosing a decision very carefully and detail. In refusing a gift from another person, Javanese people will say it gently, politely, ethically and not to offend others. The javanese culture teaches people who refuse to provide the COVID-19 vaccine prefer not to attend or visit the COVID-19 vaccination service facilities. Based on information from health workers who refuse to be given the COVID-19 vaccine, health workers who refuse vaccination are silent and are not present to the injection site. Meanwhile, health workers who are present will sign a vaccination refusal form and are willing to accept the consequences, but there are health workers who are present and have to be vaccinated because they are afraid and feel insecure.[29] From interviews with several respondents, it can be used as the basis for this research in assesing the protection of the rights of health workers in refusing to give the COVID-19 vaccine to The National COVID-19 Vaccination program in Kebumen Regency. Based on this interview, it can be assesed that the right of health workers to refuse the provision of the COVID-19 vaccine in Kebumen Regency is not guaranteed.

Hegemoni and Domination Theory

The state with the power it has and citizens with the rights it has are two sides with different interest. In handling and preventing the transmission of the COVID-19 disease, the government is trying to implement The National COVID-19 Vaccination Program for the community. Some citizen, especially those targeted by health workers also have the right to freedom of choice, namely the right to refuse to aminister the COVID-19 vaccine. The middle way to reach an agreement is to communicate. Two parties with different interst in aproblem can be resolved with the concept of Hegemony and Domination Theory offered by Antonio Gramscie.[30] In this theory, the state or government will play an active role in making compromises to avoid a conflict in society. Gramsci admits that hegemonic rule (or the extraordinary domination of hegemony over domination as a form of political control) is a "normal" form of government. Hegemony is the ideal belief of community groups that will create changes to encourage the government to take force and consent strategy steps. The ideal belief of the community is that health workers who have human rights like other Indonesian citizens in refusing to give COVID-19 vaccination to be protected and respected and given a sense of security free from pressure. Meanwhile, the hegemony of the government is to protect citizens from the spread and transmission of the COVID-19 disease with one of the strategic efforts, namely providing a COVID-19 vaccination program to the community through political, economic, social and cultural aspects. In this hegemony phase, the government seeks to activate hardware and software tools. The government's hard work tool is a tool that has the ability to force and nuance law enforcement, namely by issuing several laws and regulations to regulate the community in preventing the transmission of the COVID-19 disease.

Meanwhile, government software works by persuading the public to comply with government health regulations and protocols through religious life, education, arts and family life. In the hegemony of the political class it means that the class has succeeded in persuading other social classes to accept the cultural, political and moral values ​​of that class. Hegemony is a type of intellectual and moral leadership. Consensus that includes several types of intellectual or emotional acceptance of the existing social and political order.[31] Hegemony as a direction towards the struggle to arrive at a consciousness that is not only based on economic needs but is coherent in economic, political, social and cultural conceptions. In the conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in the COVID-19 vaccination program, the hegemony stage has entered a period of decadent hegemony or decadent hegemony, namely a system that has reached the target but the mass mentality is not really in line with dominant thinking because there are still groups of people who reject it. giving COVID-19 vaccination. The government as an integral state is a complex combination of domination and hegemony or the whole complex of practical and theoretical activities with the ruling class not only justifying and maintaining its dominance but also trying to win active approval from the people under control. The state is the coercive apparatus of the government as well as the hegemonic apparatus of private institutions consisting of political society and civil society or hegemonic domination. The government or the state represented by the ranking class as a minority component in controlling society requires a power bloc by maintaining alliances with other groups. They made compromises according to what their alliance wanted. Society as proletariat has a dual awareness, namely ideas influenced by the government and their life experiences. In this condition, there are always hegemonic groups to conquer hegemony over themselves, so it is necessary to counter hegemony pioneered by organic intellectuals. The consensus between the government and community groups in administering the COVID-19 vaccine requires the role of intellectuals which according to Antonio Gramscie: all men are intellectual, one could therefore say, but not all men in society have the function of intellectual.[32]Gramsci suggested, "democracy between the ruling group and the ruled group exists as far as economic development, and therefore the law which states it is development, opens channels for the governed to enter the ruling group. In this condition, a central mediation between the structure and the superstructure is needed, the intellectuals are not defined in terms of personal specificity but functionally and in concrete institutional arrangements that connect them with the entire hegemonic apparatus of the state.

 

E.                 Conclusion

Every citizen has rights that can be used at any time. Every citizen also cannot take their rights. The freedom of citizen to choose to take or not to take their rights. The freedom of citizen to choose to take or not to take their rights should be protected by the government. The freedom to make a decision not to take one’s rights is include in human rights, namely the right to freedom of self-determination and the right to freedom of self-decision making, including the right to refuse to administer the COVID-19 vaccine. Health workers who have well understand and knowledge in the field of health, medicine and care are familiar with information about vaccination from the production process, distribution, licensing and clinical trials to the side effect resulting from the provision of the COVID-19 vaccine. Health worker’s understanding of the science and knowledge of the COVID-19 vaccine and the lack of information and access to information provided by the government has resulted in group of health workers having the right to consider and make decisions to reject the provision of the COVID-19 vaccine. The right of health workers to refuse the provision of the COVID-19 vaccine have been guaranteed by the constitution, but still not guaranteed and protected by the government, namely the Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia year 1945 article 27, paragraph (2) and article 28 (A), Law Number 36 year 2009 concerning to Health article 5, paragraph (3) and article 56, paragraph (1) and article 4 paragraph (2) with article 4 and 30 Law Number 39 year 1999 concerning to Human Rights. The regional government, in this case the Kebumen Regency Government through the institutions under it, does not have the authority to impose criminal sanctions, fines, coerce, threaten or intimidate these health workers for refusing to provide the COVID-19 vaccine. Regulation of the Minister of Health of the Republic of Indonesia Number 10 year 2021 concerning to the Implementation of Vaccination in the Context of the Corona Virus 2019 (COVID-19) Disease Pandemic becomes ineffective in the operation of the law due to legal factors, law enforcement, infrastructure, sanctions, society and culture that hinder it in the operation of the law, application of law in society. The rights of health workers to refuse to give the COVID-19 vaccine are also of the factors that hinder the functioning of this Regulation of the Minister of Health of the Republic of Indonesia Number 10 year 2021. In Hegel’s Theory, the form of protection for the right to refuse health workers from the provision of the COVID-19 vaccine by the government or the state is a rational and actual action and vice versa if the government or state does not guarantee the freedom of the right to refuse citizens to the provision of the COVID-19 vaccine, it becomes a policy that cannot rational and actual, so it is not called a state. Among the conflict between the government and health workers who refuse vaccination, compromises and consensus are needed by using the Hegemonic Domination Theory initiated by Antonio Gramsci. Vaccination of COVID-19 is a government effort that aims to reduce transmission due to the COVID-19 disease and protect all spilled Indonesian blood as stated in the country’s objectives in the Preamble to the Constitution Republic of Indonesia year 1945, while the refusal of health workers to provide the COVID-19 vaccine as a form Human Rights to freedom of choice and self-determination which must also be protected and respected by all parties, including the government. From this study, the authors hope that there will be a continuation of the next research related to the provision of COVID-19 vaccination because there are still other vaccination group targets such as the elderly and others.

 

Acknowledgement

In this study, the authors would like to thank the Head of Health Office Kebumen Regency, Mr. dr. H.A. Dwi Budi Satrio, M.Kes, who have given permission to the author to study, the Chairperson of The Health Professional Organization in Kebumen Regency and all his fellow health workers in Kebumen Regency who has helped the author provide information and on the research and writing process. Second, the author would like to thank the Director of Polytechnic Dharma Patria Kebumen, Mr, Ari Waluyo, S.ST., M.M., who has provided the opportunity for writers to teach, research and develop knowledge at the Polytechnic Dharma Patria Kebumen campus, this opportunity is very useful for writers, in making this research. Third, the authors would like to thank friend, teachers and author inspirations as well as senior lawyers in Kebumen Regency, namely Mr. Dr. Teguh Purnomo, S.H., M.Hum., M.Kn., who has provided criticism, input and suggestion on each of writer’s concepts, ideas and recommendation to this research can be finished properly.

 

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[1] Commitee for Handling COVID and National Economic Recovery, Data on the Distribution and Situation of the COVID-19 Virus in Indonesia <https://covid19.go.id.> accessed 2 April 2021.

[2]ibid

 

[3] op.cit

[4] loc.cit

[5] Decree of the Minister of Health of the Republic of Indonesia No. 12757 of 2020 on Setting Targets for Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Vaccination

[6]Vidya Pinandhita, Balitbangkes, COVID-19 Vaccination Spokesperson, Ministry of Health Republic of Indonesia, dr. Siti Nadia Tarmizi ‘People who still do not believe COVID-19 is Blocking The Vaccination Program’(health.detik.com, 24 March 2021, 08.32) <www.health.detik.com/beritadetikhealth/detailartikel> accesed 17 April 2021.

Fahrur Rozi, Lembaga Survei Indonesia (LSI) ‘Public Distrust of COVID-19 is 42.4%’ (m.liputan6.com., 22 Pebruary 2021, 20.12) www.m.liputan6.com/news/nasional, accessed 17 April 2021.

[7] Decree of the Minister of health of the Republic of Indonesia No. 12758 of 2020 on Determination of Vaccines for the Implementation of the Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Disease, 28 December 2020

[8] Kebumen Tanggap COVID, <www.corona.kebumenkab.go.id> accessed 2 April 2021.

[9] Victoria H. Situmorang, ‘Religious Freedom as Part of Human Rights’ (2019) <https://ejournal.balitbangham.go.id> accessed 30 March 2021

[10] Penny Naluria Utami, ‘Fulfillment of Health Services for Female Prisoners in The Narcotics Penitentiary in Langkat’ (2020)  <https://ejournal.balitbangham.go.id> accessed 30 March 2021

[11] I Nengah Suantra, Ilmu Negara (published Uwais Inspirasi Indonesia, Denpasar 2017) 66

 

[12] Philip Alston dan Franz Magnis Suseno, Hukum Hak Asasi Manusia, (Pusat Studi Hak Asasi Manusia, Universitas Islam Indonesia, Yogyakarta 2008) 11.

 

 

[13] ibid, 15

[14] op.cit, 16

[15] Based interview with health workers who refuse to be given the COVID-19 vaccine

 

[16] Allen W. Wood, Hegel’s Ethical Thought, (first published Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1990) 23-26

[17] Allen W. Wood, Hegel’s Ethical Thought, (first published Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1990) 26, 237

[18] Michael Baur, G.W.F Hegel Key Concept (first published Routledge Taylor and Franch Groups, London and New York 2015) 65

 

[19] Heidegger, Martin, Hegel’s Phenomenology Spirit in Parvis Emad and Kenneth Maly (eds), (first published Indiana University Press, Indianapolis, USA 1980) 195

 

[20] Roberts B. Pippin and Otfried Hoffe (eds), Hegel on Ethics and Politic, (published Cambridge University Press 2004), 11

[21] Ishaq, Dasar-Dasar Ilmu Hukum, (second edition,  Sinar Grafika Jakarta 2009) 245.

[22] Based interview with the Head of Health Office Kebumen Regency, the Chairperson of the Indonesia National Nurses Association (PPNI) Kebumen Regency and health workers who refuse to be given the COVID-19 vaccine

[23] ibid

[24] Presidential Regulation of The Republic of Indonesia Number 14 year 2021 of Amandments to Presidential Regulation Number 99 year 2020 of the Procurement of Vaccines and Implementation of Vaccinations in the Context of  Overcoming the Pandemic Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) article 13A paragraph 4 and 5

[25] Soekidjo Notoatmojo, Etika dan Hukum Kesehatan (published Rineka Cipta, Jakarta 2010) 95

 

[26] Based interview with the Head of Health Office Kebumen Regency

[27] Based interview with healt workers who refuse to be given the COVID-19 vaccine

[28] Satjipto Rahardjo, Hukum dan Masyarakat (published Angkasa, Bandung 1986) 88

[29] ibid

[30] Walter L. Adamson, Hegemony and Revolution, a study of Antonio Gramsci’s Political and Cultural Theory (third published, University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, 1980),175.

 

[31] Sulistyo Santoso, Epistomologi Kiri, (published ar-Ruzz Yogyakarta 2003) 89

[32] ibid, 176

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